The Kyoto Climate Accord: Representatives from 150 nations agreed yesterday on a package of measures that for the first time would legally obligate industrial countries to cut emissions of waste industrial gases that some scientists say are warming the Earth's atmosphere.

That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies in time of peace should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
— George Mason, Article 13 of The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776